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Google Notebook
Collect notes and ideas from web sites you are researching in one easily accessible place. A great tool for sharing your files with colleagues and students, keeping track of your work from home or in college. There’s also an optional Google Notebook extension for your browser to make adding content even easier. |
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Flickr Create online albums of images to share with students, staff and wider, or for research storage. Tag pictures for easy sorting and retrieval. Flicker provides an immense library of images to explore. |
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Picasa Picassa requires a download and installation of software but gives very easy cataloguing of images on your local PC, as well as sharing them into web albums. |
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SnapJot An easy-to-use tool for collecting images and ideas, and interesting because it combines both data types, which will potentially make it a very useful sidekick to web researching |
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Wink An interesting ‘social search engine’ that enables you to benefit from searches undertaken by others, contribute your own resources and share with others. It uses tagging of search results to help categorise information (as with del.icio.us, etc.) |
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Del.icio.us A web service to keep your favourite bookmarks in one place, allowing you to tag entries to help sort them, to share with other users and to benefit from the shared sets of bookmarks others have found that might assist you. A very useful tool for web research, and finding new content and ideas. |
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Windows Local.Live.Com Live is the new Microsoft initiative for online services, and this site gives you the ability to locate local services using sophisticated mapping to show the results. Google Maps is a very similar system in every respect, and its mapping is very responsive to zooming and panning. There are, of course, also the marvellous Google Earth and fun Google Moon too! |
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rollyo If you'd like to limit your or your students' searches to a range of trusted or more pertinent web sites then this tool makes that quite easy. Whilst it'll be difficult to give up googling there may be times when the whole www is too vast - you may know the sites likely to have the information so just search them instead. |
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mayomi smart-looking mind-mapping tool |
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ask and vivisimo Well, sometimes, you might want to try another search engine. These two are well-respected and have some interesting variations on the 'search' theme which may appeal. You may even find they locate what you really want more effciciently than the usual MSN, yahoo! defaults or Google. Ask uses what used to be known as Teoma's ranking technology and Vivisimo is a 'cluster' search tool reporting from several types of search in one go.
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